On: Principles of Programming Languages (1997) [pdf]

[mathgladiator]

This is timely, I'm reviewing this deck just after working a grueling day on my language and tuning the language runtime for performance.

What's interesting is how many things we can now intuitively take for granted, but for each idea someone had to suffer and make it real. Their primary barrier was people via communication and getting traction.

[hn3333 → mathgladiator]

I like your second paragraph. This is true for large parts of life and a good reason to work hard and leave something behind for future generations.